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Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966).
Apr 2, 2014 · Harper Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Go Set a Watchman,' which portrays the later years of the Finch family. Updated: Mar 31,...
Apr 25, 2024 · Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926, Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.—died February 19, 2016, Monroeville) was an American writer nationally acclaimed for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). Harper Lee’s father was Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer who by all accounts resembled the hero of her novel in his sound citizenship and warmheartedness.
Feb 19, 2016 · Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies, died at the age of 89. Donald Uhrbrock/The LIFE Images...
Mar 26, 2024 · Harper Lee is an avid reader as a child. She is 6 years old when the Scottsboro trials are widely covered in national, state and local newspapers. Scout Finch’s Childhood. She grew up in the 1930s in a rural southern Alabama town. Her father, Atticus Finch, is an attorney who served in the state legislature in Alabama.
Apr 15, 2024 · To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by American author Harper Lee, published in 1960. Enormously popular, it was translated into some 40 languages, sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and is one of the most-assigned novels in American schools. In 1961 it won a Pulitzer Prize.
Feb 19, 2016 · Books. Harper Lee: Her Life and Work. By JOHN WILLIAMS and TAMARA BESTFEB. 19, 2016. Harper Lee, the beloved author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” died on Friday in her hometown of Monroeville,...
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